10 Reasons Why "I Feel Fine" Is The Lie That Kills Drivers Every Weekend (And What State Troopers Use Instead)
Summary: Cheap drugstore breathalyzers use the same sensor in a $5 children's toy. They lie about your BAC by up to .04, the exact margin between safe to drive and 30 days in county. Fuel cell sensor breathalyzers like the SoberSense Pro use the same tech police carry on the side of the road. Keep reading to learn the difference.
1. You can stop trusting "I feel fine" — the lie that kills sober looking drivers every Saturday night
In 19 years as an Illinois state trooper I have arrested over 600 drivers for DUI. 562 of them looked completely sober when I walked up to their car. They were polite. They were coherent. They told me they felt fine. They were not fine. They were over the limit. The feeling does not match the number. The feeling never matches the number. The feeling is what your brain tells you when alcohol has slowed it down enough that it cannot evaluate itself anymore. The number is what a fuel cell sensor reads off your breath in 5 seconds. The SoberSense Pro is the device I now carry in my personal car. I read the number before I drive home from family dinners. I do not trust the feeling anymore. Neither should you.
2. You can stop using the $20 drugstore breathalyzer that lies to you
There are two kinds of breathalyzers on the market. Fuel cell sensors and semiconductor oxide sensors. Fuel cell is what police carry on the side of the road. Fuel cell is what every state trooper in my department uses on duty. Semiconductor oxide is the $20 device at the drugstore. The sensor inside it costs the manufacturer about $3 to install. It gives you a number on the screen that looks real, but the number can be off by .03 or .04. That margin is the difference between legal and illegal. Between drive home and 30 days in county. Between safe and dead. You cannot stake your license on a semiconductor oxide reading. The SoberSense Pro uses the same fuel cell sensor as the device in my cruiser.
3. You can use the same fuel cell sensor police carry on the side of the road
The breathalyzer in my cruiser uses a fuel cell sensor. So does the one in every patrol vehicle in our department. It is what I use to test drivers at DUI stops. My partner Daniel Reyes uses one in his personal car. He told me he tested it against the sergeant's calibrated cruiser unit three times last year. His personal device was within .003 of the police unit every time. .003. That is more accurate than the difference between two of my own cruiser breathalyzers. The SoberSense Pro is what he uses. It is what I bought four of for my family the week after a crash I responded to on County Road 7 last October. It is the only device I would trust my driver's license to.
4. You can catch the "two drinks" that's actually five drinks
Last October I responded to a single car crash on County Road 7. The driver was 62. He told the paramedic he had two glasses of wine with dinner. His blood alcohol at the scene was .14. Almost twice the legal limit. The receipt from the restaurant later showed he had ordered a bottle of wine for the table, a cocktail before the meal, and two glasses of limoncello at the end. Five drinks across three hours. He was not lying. He genuinely did not remember the cocktail or the after dinner drinks. Most people do not count their refills, their toasts, the second glass the waiter pours from the shared bottle. The screen on a SoberSense Pro counts. It does not forget. It does not round down to two.
5. You can avoid the one mistake that costs $19,000 and a criminal record
A single DUI conviction in Illinois costs the average driver $19,000 by the time it is over. Bail to get out of jail the first night, around $2,000. Lawyer fees to fight the charge, $5,000 to $10,000. Court fines if convicted, up to $2,000. Mandatory alcohol education classes, $500. Ignition interlock device on your car for a full year, $1,500. Auto insurance increase for the next three years, $6,000. Lost wages from court appearances, $2,000. Then there is the criminal record. The suspended license for a full year. The mark on every background check for the rest of your life. The SoberSense Pro costs $85. That is less than the bottle of wine on the table at the dinner that ended on County Road 7.
6. You can protect everyone you love who drives after a drink
I bought four SoberSense Pros the week after the crash. One for me. One for my wife. One for my 22 year old son who is a senior at the University of Illinois. One for my 19 year old who just got his license. My older son drinks beer with his fraternity brothers on Saturday nights. He drives home from the bars near campus. He uses the device every weekend. He sends me a screenshot of his number when he gets home. Sometimes the screenshot is at 2 AM. Sometimes it is .04 and he is waiting another 30 minutes in the parking lot. Sometimes it is .00 and he is in his bed. I treasure those screenshots more than I can tell you. The device is the only protection a parent has when their adult child is 200 miles away.
7. You can stop wondering if your spouse should be driving you home tonight
My wife is 45. She is a high school principal. She has been married to me for 21 years. She has never had a DUI. She has never even had a speeding ticket. She has driven me home from hundreds of dinners and weddings and faculty events. I had been arresting drunk drivers for 9 years before it occurred to me to wonder what her number was on any of those drives home. The first time she blew into the SoberSense Pro was after our anniversary dinner in March. The screen read 0.08. Exactly at the legal limit. She had three glasses of wine over four hours. She told me she felt completely fine. She sat at our kitchen table for an hour and a half until her number came down. She drove me home from the next dinner at 0.00. The device asked her the question I had never thought to ask.
8. You can be the reason a police officer lets you drive home tonight
In May I made a routine traffic stop at 11 PM on a Saturday. The driver had drifted across the lane line twice in the half mile before I pulled him over. He was 56. Coming home from his daughter's engagement dinner. Before I asked for his license he handed me a SoberSense Pro. The screen showed 0.06. He told me he had blown into it in the parking lot before he left the restaurant. He had noticed he was drifting and was about to pull off at the next exit and wait an hour at a coffee shop. I gave him my own department breathalyzer. He blew 0.061. Within .003 of his personal device. I let him sit in the back of my cruiser for an hour with a bottle of water. He blew 0.02 at 12:15 AM. I let him drive home. He is alive because he had a number in his hand.
9. You can stop pretending the feeling matches the number
The 62 year old man on County Road 7 told the paramedic he felt fine. He told me he felt fine. He told the doctor at the hospital he felt fine. Fine was the word he kept saying. He blew 0.14. He killed his wife. The feeling does not match the number. The feeling never matches the number. The feeling is what your brain tells you when alcohol has slowed it down enough that it cannot evaluate itself anymore. The number is what a fuel cell sensor reads off your breath in 5 seconds. Every driver in America who has ever driven home from a dinner and told themselves they were fine has been operating on the same lie that man was operating on. The only difference is most of them got home. He didn't. His wife didn't. The SoberSense Pro is the only thing that tells you the truth instead of the lie.
10. You can be the reason your family makes it home tonight Try the SoberSense Pro Today.
I bought four. My partner Daniel Reyes bought four. The man whose wife died on County Road 7 bought eight after the funeral. One for each of his children, his son in law, his grandchildren who drive, and himself. He wrote me a letter in May. He told me he has not driven impaired since the night his wife died. He said thank you for being the one who told him. The truth is I had not told him about the device. He had learned about it from another widower in a grief group. A man who had bought one after his own loss. The device travels from widower to widower because the men who own one know exactly what they would give to have given one to the man they used to be. You can start with one. Order it before this weekend. Hers came too late.
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